Engineering Career Fair

Student Chapters

The University of Toronto
Student Section is back into the swing of things with a whole new year to look
forward to. With five new
portfolios with a blend of returning officers and new officers, this year’s
student section will include successful events from the past and new ideas for
this and future years.

The portfolios are Technical
Workshops, Plant Tours, Professional Seminars, Socials and Recruitment, and
Competitions. The plant tours being planned this year include favorites such as
Toyota Manufacturing, Pratt & Whitney, Bombardier Aerospace, and many more. We will also be continuing our professional
seminars, including the annual PEY Mixer, Steam Mixer, alongside new events
such as the Career Path Seminar, and Leadership/Motivational Speaker Series. Many
technical workshops have already been planned for the year covering MS Project,
MS Access, MS Excel, Solidworks, AutoCAD, and ANSYS. Of course any year would
be incomplete without our semesterly socials, and our internal “Skule
Engineering Competitions” (SEC) which
include design, oral, and consulting competitions. In March 2013 UofT
also looks forward to co-hosting the Student Professional Development
Conference in Toronto alongside Ryerson, and UoIT.

As we progress with our plans for
the 2012 to 2013 academic year, the UofT Student Section would like to invite
all Ontario Section professionals to our numerous networking events. Any support you can provide would be
welcomed and greatly appreciated.

UOIT’s ASME chapter is back in action after being inactive for a while. With a newly formed committee for this year’s student section, we look forward to having many successful events with our new ideas for this and the future years.

The chapter is currently focusing on creating awareness within our campus of the ASME Organization, driving membership, and encouraging younger year students to join the section and take on leadership roles for the future years of this student section.

On October 4th, 2011; UOIT experienced ASME’s kick-off fundraiser event. Some of the events that are planned this year are the Wind Tunnel Tour, Geothermal Tour both located on campus, Professional Engineers Ontario (P.E.O.) seminar, Time-Management seminar, Ethics seminar, Pressure Vessels conference, Case-study competition with UOIT’s Engineering Society & awards are sponsored by Schinder Electric and Charity Dodge-ball event with all societies and clubs on campus competing and the proceedings will go back to the community.

This academic year, UOIT has taken the responsibility of hosting the yearly Student Night Dinner, one of our best networking events. We are also planning to host a summer Computer Aided Design (CAD) Camp for high school students.

This chapter is heavily promoting all the events successfully as evident from the great turnout of each event. We hope to continue in this direction and is very pleased with the warm welcome received by other university chapters in offering us help in getting started, and we hope that for the future years to come the chapter will continue its growth and success.

The University of Ottawa
student branch of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (UOASME) has
been hard at work setting the framework for an exciting conclusion to the
2008-09 academic year.

In mid-October
2008, the section hosted a Career Seminar, enabling students to get a glimpse
of what to expect following graduation.Charlene Tung of ASME Ontario kicked off the festivities with
job-seeking tips and a personal account of her work as Black Belt at GE Water.Students
then got to hear from Philippe Poitras, an alumnus of the University
of Ottawa’s mechanical engineering
program and a biomedical mechanical engineer with the Orthopaedic Biomechanics
Laboratory at the Ottawa General
Hospital.The evening concluded with recent graduates
giving a very candid perspective on the job search.

In other news, the deadline is rapidly
approaching for the first-year design competition in which students have the
opportunity to use their acquired skills in computer-aided design (CAD).This year, UOASME found inspiration in the
2010 Olympic Games, and future engineers have been challenged to design
high-performance sport sleds.

Eventwise,
UOASME is ecstatic to be hosting its first Young Engineers Forum (YEF), which
promises to draw large crowds for panel discussions involving ground-breaking
technologies and personal challenges in the workplace.Also, the YEF will involve recruiting
agencies giving first-hand accounts of what they are looking for and what the
future holds for the mechanical engineering discipline.The section’s annual technical seminar is
just around the corner, and promises to give students a fresh look at their
professors’ research interests.

Another
exciting event will be the CAD/CAM Preview in which current students and recent
graduates will share their knowledge and experience of a daunting yet
exhilarating compulsory fourth-year design course that culminates the
mechanical engineering degree at the University
of Ottawa.It promises to be business as usual for the
dedicated executives at UOASME who are more excited than ever to be connecting
students, professors, and employers in the mechanical engineering discipline.

Ryerson’s ASME chapter has been finally brought back into action after being
inactive for 3 years. On February 11th, 2009, Ryerson experienced
ASME’s kick-off event with Charlene Tung’s wonderful presentation covering
topics such as “New Grad to New Hire” and showing the benefits of being
associated with ASME. The chapter currently has 5 officers, and is trying to
tackle two tasks at once. One of the tasks being familiarizing students with the
organization and driving membership, and the other task being to help promote
younger students to become officers and take on leadership roles in the future
years.

The chapter is currently focusing on promoting attendance to a few events
such as the Unilever plant tour, Bombardier plant tour (March 19th),
and Young Engineer's Forum. We are very happy to be welcomed by other university
chapters offering us help in getting started, and we hope that for the future
years to come the chapter will continue its growth.